AI Product Owner - 6+ Month Contract (Retail | Melbourne) Drive real-world AI products. Shape the future of retail. A fast-growing national retail business is expanding its AI capability and looking for a highly capable AI Product Owner to lead the strategy, delivery, and evolution of their next generation of AI-driven products. This is a hands-on contract role where you'll partner closely with engineering, data, and architecture teams to take concepts from ideation through to production at scale.
What You'll Do
Own the end-to-end AI product lifecycle including strategy, roadmap, delivery, iteration.
Translate business needs into clear technical requirements, user stories, and measurable outcomes.
Lead cross-functional squads to design, build, and deploy AI features that enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.
Work closely with architects to shape solution design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment to enterprise standards.
Contribute to hands-on engineering decisions, model selection, data pipelines, integration patterns, cloud architecture.
Drive experimentation frameworks, evaluate model performance, and iterate based on evidence and customer value.
Communicate priorities, progress, and benefits to stakeholders across tech and the wider business.
What You Bring
Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in AI, ML, Data, or Automation.
Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native).
Ability to contribute to technical discussions across AI engineering, data pipelines, APIs, and integration.
Experience working with AI/ML technologies (e.g., LLMs, NLP, recommender systems, prediction models, Python).
Excellent stakeholder management, prioritisation, and communication skills.
Background in retail, ecommerce, supply chain, consumer products, or other high-volume B2C environments (bonus).
Contract Details
6+ month contract with strong potential to extend
Melbourne-based retail brand with national scale
Competitive day rate
Hybrid working environment
If you're an AI-focused product leader who can blend strategy with hands-on technical capability, and you want to deliver products that genuinely shape customer experience, apply now or reach out directly for a confidential chat.